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Recalling the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements,
including its Annexes and Agreed Minutes, by the Government of the State of Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, in Washington, D.C., on 13 September
1993,2 as well as the subsequent implementation agreements, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian Interim
Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, signed in Washington, D.C., on 28 September 1995,3 and
the Memorandum signed at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 4 September 1999,
Reaffirming that the United Nations has a permanent responsibility with respect to the question of
Palestine until the question is resolved in all its aspects in a satisfactory manner in accordance with
international legitimacy,
1. Expresses its appreciation to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People for its efforts in performing the tasks assigned to it by the General Assembly;
2. Considers that the Committee can continue to make a valuable and positive contribution to
international efforts to promote the Middle East peace process and the full implementation of the agreements
reached and to mobilize international support for and assistance to the Palestinian people during the transitional
period;
3.
report;1
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee contained in chapter VII of its
4. Requests the Committee to continue to keep under review the situation relating to the question of
Palestine and to report and make suggestions to the General Assembly or the Security Council, as appropriate;
5. Authorizes the Committee to continue to exert all efforts to promote the exercise of the inalienable
rights of the Palestinian people, to make such adjustments in its approved programme of work as it may
consider appropriate and necessary in the light of developments, to give special emphasis to the need to
mobilize support and assistance for the Palestinian people and to report thereon to the General Assembly at
its fifty-fifth session and thereafter;
6. Requests the Committee to continue to extend its cooperation and support to Palestinian and other
non-governmental organizations in order to mobilize international solidarity and support for the achievement
by the Palestinian people of its inalienable rights and for a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine,
and to involve additional non-governmental organizations in its work;
2
A/48/486–S/26560, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-eighth Year, Supplement
for October, November and December 1993, document S/26560.
3
A/51/889–S/1997/357, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year,
Supplement for April, May and June 1997, document S/1997/357.
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